Much of the football crowd there orders from the affordable appetizer menu: $6.96 to $8.95, with $1.75 and $2.50 soups. Football specials are the norm on days when games are played.

Chef Oscar Phemsint expands his “Oscar’s Menu” from Wednesdays-Saturdays to include Sundays during the football season, according to bartender Karyn Taylor. On it are 27 dinner entrees, from $9.95 pastas to $16.95 veal dishes. Gung Pow chicken, shrimp fra diavolo, veal pizzaiola, and steak marsala are among the choices.

Going to the Plank Road Inn can almost be a “religious” experience for the pigskin fan on game day: with 30 flat screen TVs, they might just stand there in awe. They’re split between the bar, back room, and an area between both.

Coach House Restaurant

The Coach House Restaurant is happy to be a venue for the football and hot wing crowd, according to owner Nick Pappas.

“We have football on all the time, and we’ve very focused on sports,” Pappas said.

And with nine televisions sets, and room for 20 to 25 at the bar, county residents don’t have to go far for their share of first downs and foot longs.

Come early, come late, the chips are always on the bar, according to Pappas.

“We have happy hour specials Monday through Friday – Mondays all night – and the rest of the week, Tuesday through Friday, we have them 4 to 8,” he said.

“You can have a date and have a nice dinner, but we also have jerseys over the bar,” said manager on duty Albert Martinez on Aug. 27.

They get quite a football crowd there, too, enough so to roll out two large-screen projectors on Sundays during football season to project onto two different walls, in the restaurant and in a larger back area.

“They’re really massive,” Martinez said. “One takes up the whole front window, and the other, a whole back wall.”

Football fans will like the two projectors, seven TVs, and dozens of football-viewing seats between their two bars and enclosed courtyard area.

But they’ll like even better their beer tower specials; $20 for a 100-ounce domestic beer mini-keg (Bud Lite or Park Avenue Lager); and $24 for a 100-ounce import (Stella, Blue Moon, or Samuel Adams).